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Ankara: Turkey has warned online encyclopedia Wikipedia, blocked by Ankara two weeks ago, over what it says is content creating a perception that Turkey is...

Dubai: IS has issued a video showing the beheading of what it described as a Russian intelligence officer captured in Syria, the U.S.-based SITE monitoring...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed former army general and ambassador Roy Cimatu as the new environment minister, the country's...

London: France's President-elect Emmanuel Macron will be tough in negotiations over the terms of Britain's departure from the European Union but...

Abuja: Boko Haram militants have released dozens of schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 whom they kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok in...

Beijing: China said on Thursday it wants to be good neighbours with North Korea, after the isolated country's state news agency published a rare...

Seoul: North Korea detained a U.S. citizen on Friday as he attempted to leave the isolated country, bringing the total number of Americans held by the...

Washington: A U.S. soldier was killed while conducting operations against IS in Afghanistan late on Saturday, a U.S. military spokesman said in a message...

By Fayaz Bukhari and Promit Mukherjee

The lights were switched off around the world at 8:30p.m. on Saturday evening, to mark the 10th annual Earth Hour, and to draw attention to climate change.